Solar System Map Generator

Planetmaker allows you to create and tweak your own planet using image textures lighting and more importantly your imagination.

Solar system map generator.

Generates randomised star system skeletons ready to fill with stories and adventure. An orrery is a model of the solar system that shows the positions of the planets along their orbits around the sun. In 1971 i created my own random solar system generator in fortran. I immediately purchased a copy of the second edition of habitable planets for man which had just been published by american elsevier.

May or may not generate life supporting systems. The chart above shows the sun at the centre the yellow ball surrounded by the solar system s innermost. Force this system to include a terrestrial world. World map of satellite positions satellites in your sky 3d satellite map planetarium of satellites catalog of spacecraft.

Color by security status. In this solar system map you can see the planetary positions from 3000 bce to 3000 ce and also see when each planet is in retrograde. Visualize the orbits of the main solar system objects in an interactive 3d solar system simulator. Saturday 13th june 2020.

Approximate positions available between 1900 to 2100 date range. The planets today shows you where the planets are now as a live display a free online orrery. These maps are not stored being generated from your session. For reference our solar system s star called the sun is a g type main sequence star.

My own work on solar system generators started in 1970 when i encountered asimov s popularization of dole s book planets for man. There are two parts to this tool. The first seen directly below is the randomizing version. Detailed descriptions of a star and its orbiting bodies.